This is air: The “nonhealth” effects of air pollution

S Aguilar-Gomez, H Dwyer, J Graff Zivin… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
A robust body of evidence shows that air pollution exposure is detrimental to health
outcomes, often measured as deaths and hospitalizations. This literature has focused less …

Recent findings and methodologies in economics research in environmental justice

L Cain, D Hernandez-Cortes… - Review of …, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
This review synthesizes economics-oriented research in environmental justice with a focus
on the last decade. We first categorize this literature into broad areas of inquiry and review …

The changing risk and burden of wildfire in the United States

M Burke, A Driscoll, S Heft-Neal, J Xue… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - pnas.org
Recent dramatic and deadly increases in global wildfire activity have increased attention on
the causes of wildfires, their consequences, and how risk from wildfire might be mitigated …

Excess of COVID-19 cases and deaths due to fine particulate matter exposure during the 2020 wildfires in the United States

X Zhou, K Josey, L Kamareddine, MC Caine, T Liu… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The year 2020 brought unimaginable challenges in public health, with the confluence of the
COVID-19 pandemic and wildfires across the western United States. Wildfires produce high …

The 2020 California fire season: A year like no other, a return to the past or a harbinger of the future?

HD Safford, AK Paulson, ZL Steel… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Wildfire burned area, fire size, fire severity and the ecological and socio‐economic
impacts of fire have been increasing rapidly in California in recent decades. We summarize …

Environmental pollution and socioeconomic health inequality: Evidence from China

L Liao, M Du, Z Chen - Sustainable cities and society, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent work on socioeconomic health inequality has explored the possible determinants,
but there is a lack of empirical evidence examining the associations between environmental …

The effect of air pollution on migration: Evidence from China

S Chen, P Oliva, P Zhang - Journal of Development Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper looks at the effects of air pollution on migration in China using changes in the
average strength of thermal inversions over five-year periods as a source of exogenous …

China's war on pollution: Evidence from the first 5 years

M Greenstone, G He, S Li… - Review of Environmental …, 2021 - journals.uchicago.edu
The decade from 2010 to 2019 marked a significant turning point in China's approach to
environmental regulation and pollution. This article describes the recent trends in air and …

Associations between wildfire smoke exposure during pregnancy and risk of preterm birth in California

S Heft-Neal, A Driscoll, W Yang, G Shaw… - Environmental Research, 2022 - Elsevier
There is limited population-scale evidence on the burden of exposure to wildfire smoke
during pregnancy and its impacts on birth outcomes. In order to investigate this relationship …

Straw burning, PM2. 5, and death: Evidence from China

G He, T Liu, M Zhou - Journal of Development Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
This study uses satellite data to detect agricultural straw burning and estimates its impact on
air pollution and health in China. We find that straw burning increases particulate matter …